Grand Cape Mount County

Grand Cape Mount County
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Basic data
Country	Liberia
Capital	Robertsport
surface	5162 km²
Residents	127,076 (2008)
density	25 inhabitants per km²
founding	1844
ISO 3166-2	LR-CM

Coordinates: 7 ° 10 ′  N , 11 ° 0 ′  W

Grand Cape Mount County is an administrative region ( county ) in Liberia , it has a size of 5 162  km² and had 127,076 inhabitants at the last census (2008).

The name is derived from Cape Mount , a topographical point on the Atlantic coast . The administrative region is divided into five districts. The capital is Robertsport in the Commonwealth District.

District	Ew. (2008) male	Ew. (2008) female	Ew. (2008) total
Commonwealth	3,298	3,249	6,547
Garwula	13,668	13,268	26,936
Golakonneh	13,157	10,361	23,518
Porkpa	22,208	20,407	42,615
Tewor	13,348	14,112	27,460
Grand Cape Mount	65,679	61,397	127.076

The region is located in the far west of Liberia, borders Sierra Leone to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the south .

politics

In the 2005 first Democratic Senate elections after the Civil War, Abel Momolu Massalay and James Kormah Momo - both of the NPP - were elected. The most important border crossing to neighboring Sierra Leone , Bo Waterside on the lower reaches of the Mano , was reopened in June 2007. The transportation route was an economic prerequisite for creating the Mano River Union as early as the 1970s .

Culture and sights

The Tubman Center of African Culture was opened in the capital Robertsport in 1975 , it served as a cultural meeting place and was equipped with an important collection of contemporary art. Today the building is in ruins on the western outskirts.

Individual evidence

1. ^ NPHC 2008 Report Final. (PDF; 676 kB) In: Liberian Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information-Systems (LISGIS). Retrieved October 11, 2010 . 
2. ^ Liberia, Counties and Districts. (PDF; 0.4 MB) (No longer available online.) In: Liberian Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information-Systems (LISGIS). Formerly in the original ; accessed on October 11, 2010 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ en: Wiki, article »Liberian general election, 2005« (the websites linked there for the election are no longer present).
4. ^ NN: Border post re-open between Liberia and Sierra Leone. (No longer available online.) Deccan Herald, June 14, 2007, archived from the original on December 27, 2008 ; accessed on January 18, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.